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This is the first time parents of the junior class have been formally invited to Harvard, Tony Downer '79, chairman of the junior class committee, which is co-sponsoring the event with the parents association, said yesterday...
...There was no freshman weekend for the Class of '79, so we hope this will make up for that," Downer said...
...want to give parents some idea of what life at Harvard and Radcliffe is really like," Downer said...
Eighteen months ago, a California designer named Susan Downer received a chatty telephone call from her three children (ages eleven, six and four), who were visiting her divorced husband in Manhattan. It was the last time she ever heard from them. When Mrs. Downer drove to the Los Angeles airport to pick them up, they were not aboard their designated flight. Ex-Husband Seth Gerchberg, it later developed, had remarried, liquidated his assets, obtained a passport and disappeared with the children. Since then Mrs. Downer and her second husband have spent $40,000 on a futile investigative legal odyssey that...
...children by one of their parents is not treated as a crime. Parents, even those denied custody in divorce arrangements, are exempted from the federal kidnap law. Lacking jurisdiction, the FBI almost never helps locate or return abducted offspring, even when state lines are crossed. Maybe, says Mrs. Downer, "I should tell them I've had three cars stolen, and their names are Joslyn, Heather and Terry." Says another victimized parent: "If my former husband stole a neighbor's cow, the authorities would follow him to the end of the world. But they...